ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This is where a transition plan can help provide structure to the chaos. A transition plan is used in many industries. In project management, a transition plan can help a project move successfully from one phase to the next, onboarding a new team member or transferring one team member to a new position and/or department.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2021

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2021 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 15, 2020

That’s why a planning meeting in project management is key to kicking off a successful project. If not, well, that’s why meetings get a bad name. The more prepared you are, the more productive the meeting and the more efficient your project planning. What Is the Purpose of a Planning Meeting?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. This is the start of strategic planning. Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Aggregate planning is a technique to create an equilibrium between demand and capacity. Let’s take a look at what aggregate production planning is and some aggregate planning strategies.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

This is called scenario planning. To better position a business to be prepared to respond to the unknown, learn what scenario planning is and what the different types of scenario planning are. What Is Scenario Planning? Scenario planning is different from forecasting. All have advantages and disadvantages.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You’ve heard the phrase, “Always have a Plan B.” ” Well, “Plan B” is just common vernacular for what’s known as a contingency plan. In other words, a contingency plan is put in place in case the primary plan that you’re executing doesn’t unfold as expected.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. So why do some projects crash to their doom? For example, in June 2010 Chrysler merged with Fiat.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed. Planning & Designing. SDLC Phases. Deployment. Waterfall Model.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. We didn’t need it. Leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 3, 2020

Because of this, Systemation became intimately aware of the project managers’ strengths and weaknesses in performance and was able to reflect back on the assessment results and draw specific conclusions. If the score was low, they tended to be seen as emotionally volatile and not safe for their team members to get behind and follow.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 21, 2021

From the beginning to the end of a project, the project manager and team must plan, execute, and deliver the required products and services while interacting with stakeholders. Keep your project management teams small. Think about this—there are fifteen communication channels for six team members.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. But what exactly is a capital improvement plan? What Is a Capital Improvement Plan?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? It’s also a great way to identify project successes, deliverables and achievements and learn lessons from those parts of the project that didn’t work out as planned. Find out if the planned goal aligned with the results.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2022 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. The cost of quality is a method by which an organization calculates how much it will cost to deliver a product or service that meets the quality expectation standard set in the project plan. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. It might seem that a team has all the important elements of Scrum in place. What’s the dynamic within the team?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The quality management plan is part of any successful project. What Is a Quality Management Plan? A quality management plan is the document in which every quality-related point in the project is noted (with detailed criteria) to determine if the project can move forward or not.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. A risk breakdown structure is a tool for managing risks, which are any events that you have not planned for or expected. Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You’ll learn: What delivery approach is the most common How many project managers have considered leaving the profession Why the top career goal for project managers is not what experienced professionals want How many projects a project manager runs How many people in an average project team What keeps project managers up at night And lots more.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. Basically, it’s taking a marketing plan and executing it.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

These new skills are reflected in the new Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines for certification and professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain certification, a new triad of skills they’re calling the “Talent Triangle.” So, you’re asked to wear more hats, but you’ve only one head. What do you do?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 1, 2020

How to leave your job and not feel bad about it. You might be ready to move on for lots of reasons, and whether your workplace is a horrible place to be or full of your best friends, there is no need to feel bad about your decision to quit your job. Time appears for things when they are scheduled into your year plan,” Krissy says.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Now, those goals must be communicated to the team responsible for executing the individual tasks that will lead to achieving those goals. Project management software is more conducive to sharing strategic plans. More than that, we have resource management, time tracking and task management features that help teams reach those goals.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Concepts are the bridge to project planning because you can derive the most important tasks from them. Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. You need the following competencies for successful concept development: 1. Information for the project team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. Should you have a plan to get back to Green by the point of doing the escalation? For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens. Circulate and socialize!

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Spoiler alert: Facilitating strong Sprint Planning outcomes starts before the Sprint Planning event! What is Sprint Planning?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Control’ is the scope, dates and roles on the program which have been lost in through planning or execution in the first place. Using an outside assessment team creates objectivity. An action plan with dates.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 17, 2024

This then acts as a central repository for stakeholder information, which the project manager and project team use to understand the project stakeholders and their needs, expectations and any risks or opportunities associated with their involvement in the project. Then, they can share the plan with the project team and stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2024

So it's important to get everything lined up, plan your exit from a job, and then write that resignation letter or email. So let's look at how you can prepare to quit and how you can plan your exit strategy. But do put some time into planning your exit so you feel good about it and your colleagues aren't dumped on.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. No requirements management plan. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness We all have limits.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

“We did some research about two years ago and found there were 300 planning tools on the market,” Lloyd says. You’re already seeing the development of some of their tools including AI within the planning function or bringing in chat bots too. It will expose where an organization’s data is weak or strong,” Lloyd says.

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